Improvement in boots and shoes



UNITED 'f STATES eATENTy ortica J OSIAH C. BENNETT AND GEORGE E. vBARNARD, OF LYNN, MASSAGHUSETTS.

|MPRovEmr|vT IN BooTs AND sHoEs.

pecication forming part of Letters Patent No. l 72,957, dated February 1, 1876; application filed September 23, 1875. l

To alt tvhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JO'SIAH C. BEN- NEr'r and GEORGE E. BARNARD, of Lynn,

vin the county of Essex and State of Massal nected with the upper portion of the vamp by stitches, the button-hole iiap lapping or oovering over the button-piece, or substantialy so.

A great number of ladies button-boots now made are composed of American kid or morocco, soft, but not very strong, and buttons secured to such kid easily pull through and break the kid, and destroy the appear' ance and usefulness of the shoe. French kid shoes are very much more expensive than the kid of American and othermakes, and it is also very much stronger and tougher, and, to make a shoe which shall not be too expensive, Aand yet possess the softness of the American kid, and be as strong when subjected to great strain as the French kid, we add to a shoe of ordinary kid an independent button-strip or re-enforce of French kid, the buttons being secured thereto, and secured to such an applied French kid button-strip, the buttons will be held firmly.

Figure 1 represents one of our improved shoes in side view; Fig. 2, the button-hole piece; Fig. 3, the button-receiving piece, and Fig.v 4 shows the invention applied to a high button-boot. l l

In the drawing, d are the counters or quarters;`b, the vamp, connected with the quarters by a line of stitching, c, and dis the sole. The quarters and vamp may be of any,

cheap light American kid or soft leather strong enough and good enough in every particular for a light, easy-ittin g shoe, except at the point `where the buttons are secured;

Vand to give to the shoe strength at such point we stitch to the forward portion of the quarter a button receiving or'holding piece, e, of

.strong French kid,in appearance'(to a casual observer) substantially the same kind of leather as the remainder of the shoe, but really much firmer and stronger, and easily distinguishable by any one conversant with the dif ferent kinds of kid.

. This bnttonpiece is secured to the quar-4 ter by a line ofstitching, f,- and may be applied by sewing theedge of e to an edge of the quarter; or the quarter may, and prefererably does, extend to the center of the shoe, and the independent button-piece, like that shown in Figs. l, 3, or 4, is sewed directly" down on the end of the quarter, making atI that portion of the shoe a re-enforce strip to the regular kid of the quarter. The buttons g are secured to this button-strip ein any well-y known way. Y

We shall, preferably, make the button-hole.- receiving piece h also of French kid, lsecuring it to the quarter by the line of stitching t'.

A shoe constructed as above described is consid ered, as to wearin g qualities, about equal to a French kid shoe 5 and such a shoe can be produced at a very much less price, and per- `mit thense of American kid in first-class shoes, and at a price to meet the demands of the trade.

It will be noticed that the button-receiving piece is separate from the usual quarter and vamp, but is connected to each by stitches,

t ever before been made in which there was only quarters or counter-pieces extending about the heel, and from the sole to the vamp, a vamp, and an independent button-receiving piece of a superior quality of leather connected withv the quarter and vamp. We claim-j- In testimony 4whereof we have signed out` names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSIAH G. BENNETT. n

GEORGE E. BARNARD.

Witnesses:` n

IRA B. KEITH, FRANK MGCULLOUGH. 

